I think we often focus on designing or building anelement,without researching the other elements it should connect to—without understanding the system it lives in.
- People only understand things relative to things they already understand
- People only understand things in context
- People rely on patterns and consistency
- People seek to minimize cognitive load
- People have varying levels of expertise and familiarity
- People are goal-oriented
- People often don’t know what they’re looking for
- Information is more useful when it’s actionable
Progressive enhancement is a design and development principle where we build in layers which automatically turn themselves on based on the browser’s capabilities.
The idea of progressive enhancement is thateveryone gets the perfect experience for them,rather than a pre-determined “perfect” experience from a design and development team.
Whenever I confront a design system problem, I ask myself this one question that guides the way: “What would HTML do?”
HTML is the ultimate composable language. With just a few elements shuffled together you can create wildly different interfaces. And that’s really where all the power from HTML comes up: everything has one job, does it really well (ideally), which makes the possible options almost infinite.
Design systems should hope for the same.
I know how to do full-stack development, not because I wanted to but because I had to.
Grim, but true. I know quite a few extremely talented front-end developers who have been forced out of the field because of what’s described here.
There is no choice anymore, I can’t escape it. React is so pervasive that almost every job is using it. On the rare occasion that they’re not using it, they’re using something like it.
Okay, if you weren’t already excited forPatterns Day,get a load of what Rich is going to be talking about!
You’ve got your ticket,right?
There’s probably a Pace Layer analogy in here somewhere.
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Is your design system really a system…or is it more like a collection of components?
Five more articles on modern responsive design to close out the course.
It’s snappier than front-of-the-front-end developer.